Total disaster recovery

ok, here is the case:on one site there was total disaster - fire has ruined server room. What i managed to save are only parts of alfresco server configuration - since everything was on separate disks - alf data directory + alf lucene indexes are saved.

Unfortunately, all the rest has gone - including tapes where backups were created.

Is there a chance to try to make some recovery out of the data still intact? DB is missing, and that is the true, but all the data should be there.

Tragically, one a small sites it is not possible to fulfill DR procedures according to lets say "best practices".

Accidentally, it happened that disks were in such setup on server, that two of them survived. I can reconstruct Os+Alfresco installation themself, I evenmanaged to find some old backup from several months ago, when I was last visiting that site, among my local files.

The question is did someone ever faced the same or similar situation? And of course, is there any chance to recover it?

To restart Alfresco you need at minimum to recover your database and the content store. The database and the content store need to match, with the database being slightly earlier than the content store.

You can rebuild your alfresco installation and the configuration. The lucene indexes can be re-generated so that's not a problem.

If you have lost completely lost your database then you may be able to recover some of your content by hand and guesswork from the content store, but that will be a time consuming, error prone and difficult task. Let's hope your small office did not have many documents.

You may be able to guess the content types for the contents of the documents in the content store. But the meta-data lives in the database. So you may be able to guess the mime type and create new meta data which will be a long and error-prone process.